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Why Pulling Prizes Is Okay Sometimes

  • June 9th, 2010
  • Posted in Literary Culture . Opinion
  • By Ryan

Over at Virugle there is a mostly-one-way discussion being had about how terrible Australian Book Review is for deciding not to award the inaugural Young Calibre Non-fiction Prize – an essay prize that matches their esteemed Calibre Prize, but for writers under 21. Unfortunately, apart from a questionable call for transparency, I don’t get a [ READ MORE ]

‘Tailings’, by Nic Low

  • June 2nd, 2010
  • Posted in Literary Agency . Not Yet Books
  • By Ryan

Something else I’ve been doing lately, while not being a high-flying literary judge, is reading Nic Low’s novel manuscript, ‘Tailings’. Because I’m a youth-literature crusader and everything. Nic is not exactly ‘a youth’, but whatever. I’m familiar with some of Nic’s other arts work, so I was delighted when he asked me to read and [ READ MORE ]

Prizes Ain’t Prizes

  • November 23rd, 2009
  • Posted in Literary Culture . Opinion
  • By Ryan

Sam Cooney has an article about literary awards in the current issue of Voiceworks, and the critical take on such a holy grail inspired me to continue the conversation. I’ve touched on manuscript awards once before, and am regularly vocal, to people who ask, against wholesale acceptance of prizes as a wonderful and highly sought [ READ MORE ]

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